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The reading list contains 339 books across many genres that one could read in their lifetime.

The reading list seems aimed at exposing the reader to influential and important works of literature across different time periods and locations, with a focus on classics.

Many of the books on the list such as 1984, The Great Gatsby, To Kill a Mockingbird, and Pride and Prejudice are considered classics of 20th century literature.

Rory Gilmore Reading Challenge

1. 1984 by George Orwell


2. Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by
Mark Twain
3. Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
4. The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier &
Clay by Michael Chabon
5. An American Tragedy by Theodore
Dreiser
6. Angelas Ashes by Frank McCourt
7. Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
8. The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne
Frank
9. The Archidamian War by Donald
Kagan
10. The Art of Fiction by Henry James
11. The Art of War by Sun Tzu
12. As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner
13. Atonement by Ian McEwan
14. Autobiography of a Face by Lucy
Grealy
15. The Awakening by Kate Chopin
16. Babe by Dick King-Smith
17. Backlash: The Undeclared War
Against American Women by Susan
Faludi
18. Balzac and the Little Chinese
Seamstress by Dai Sijie
19. Bel Canto by Ann Patchett
20. The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
21. Beloved by Toni Morrison
22. Beowulf: A New Verse Translation by
Seamus Heaney
23. The Bhagava Gita
24. The Bielski Brothers: The True Story
of Three Men Who Defied the Nazis, Built
a Village in the Forest, and Saved 1,200
Jews by Peter Duffy
25. Bitch in Praise of Difficult Women by
Elizabeth Wurtzel
26. A Bolt from the Blue and Other
Essays by Mary McCarthy
27. Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
28. Brick Lane by Monica Ali
29. Bridgadoon by Alan Jay Lerner
30. Candide by Voltaire
31. The Canterbury Tales by Chaucer
32. Carrie by Stephen King
33. Catch-22 by Joseph Heller
34. The Catcher in the Rye by J. D.
Salinger
35. Charlottes Web by E. B. White
36. The Childrens Hour by Lillian
Hellman
37. Christine by Stephen King
38. A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

39. A Clockwork Orange by Anthony


Burgess
40. The Code of the Woosters by P.G.
Wodehouse
41. The Collected Stories by Eudora
Welty
42. A Comedy of Errors by William
Shakespeare
43. Complete Novels by Dawn Powell
44. The Complete Poems by Anne Sexton
45. Complete Stories by Dorothy Parker
46. A Confederacy of Dunces by John
Kennedy Toole
47. The Count of Monte Cristo by
Alexandre Dumas
48. Cousin Bette by Honore de Balzac
49. Crime and Punishment by Fyodor
Dostoevsky
50. The Crimson Petal and the White by
Michel Faber
51. The Crucible by Arthur Miller
52. Cujo by Stephen King
53. The Curious Incident of the Dog in
the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
54. Daughter of Fortune by Isabel
Allende
55. David and Lisa by Dr Theodore Issac
Rubin M.D
56. David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
57. The Da Vinci -Code by Dan Brown
58. Dead Souls by Nikolai Gogol
59. Demons by Fyodor Dostoyevsky
60. Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller
61. Deenie by Judy Blume
62. The Devil in the White City: Murder,
Magic, and Madness at the Fair that
Changed America by Erik Larson
63. The Dirt: Confessions of the Worlds
Most Notorious Rock Band by Tommy
Lee, Vince Neil, Mick Mars and Nikki Sixx
64. The Divine Comedy by Dante
65. The Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya
Sisterhood by Rebecca Wells
66. Don Quixote by Cervantes
67. Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhrv
68. Dr. Jekyll & Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis
Stevenson
69. Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales &
Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
70. Eleanor Roosevelt by Blanche Wiesen
Cook
71. The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by
Tom Wolfe
72. Ella Minnow Pea: A Novel in
Letters by Mark Dunn
73. Eloise by Kay Thompson
74. Emily the Strange by Roger Reger

75. Emma by Jane Austen


76. Empire Falls by Richard Russo
77. Encyclopedia Brown: Boy
Detective by Donald J. Sobol
78. Ethan Frome by Edith Wharton
79. Ethics by Spinoza
80. Europe through the Back Door,
2003 by Rick Steves
81. Eva Luna by Isabel Allende
82. Everything Is Illuminated by Jonathan
Safran Foer
83. Extravagance by Gary Krist
84. Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
85. Fahrenheit 9/11 by Michael Moore
86. The Fall of the Athenian Empire by
Donald Kagan
87. Fat Land: How Americans Became
the Fattest People in the World by Greg
Critser
88. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by
Hunter S. Thompson
89. The Fellowship of the Ring by J. R. R.
Tolkien
90. Fiddler on the Roof by Joseph Stein
91. The Five People You Meet in
Heaven by Mitch Albom
92. Finnegans Wake by James Joyce
93. Fletch by Gregory McDonald
94. Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
95. The Fortress of Solitude by Jonathan
Lethem
96. The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand
97. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
98. Franny and Zooey by J. D. Salinger
99. Freaky Friday by Mary Rodgers
100. Galapagos by Kurt Vonnegut
101. Gender Trouble by Judith Butler
102. George W. Bushism: The Slate Book
of the Accidental Wit and Wisdom of our
43rd President by Jacob Weisberg
103. Gidget by Fredrick Kohner
104. Girl, Interrupted by Susanna Kaysen
105. The Gnostic Gospels by Elaine
Pagels
106. The Godfather: Book 1 by Mario
Puzo
107. The God of Small Things by
Arundhati Roy
108. Goldilocks and the Three Bears by
Alvin Granowsky
109. Gone with the Wind by Margaret
Mitchell
110. The Good Soldier by Ford Maddox
Ford
111. The Gospel According to Judy
Bloom
112. The Graduate by Charles Webb

113. The Grapes of Wrath by John


Steinbeck
114. The Great Gatsby by F. Scott
Fitzgerald
115. Great Expectations by Charles
Dickens
116. The Group by Mary McCarthy
117. Hamlet by William Shakespeare
118. Harry Potter and the Goblet of
Fire by J. K. Rowling
119. Harry Potter and the Sorcerers
Stone by J. K. Rowling
120. A Heartbreaking Work of
Staggering Genius by Dave Eggers
121. Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
122. Helter Skelter: The True Story of the
Manson Murders by Vincent Bugliosi and
Curt Gentry
123. Henry IV, part I by William
Shakespeare
124. Henry IV, part II by William
Shakespeare
125. Henry V by William Shakespeare
126. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
127. The History of the Decline and Fall
of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon
128. Holidays on Ice: Stories by David
Sedaris
129. The Holy Barbarians by Lawrence
Lipton
130. House of Sand and Fog by Andre
Dubus III
131. The House of the Spirits by Isabel
Allende
132. How to Breathe Underwater by Julie
Orringer
133. How the Grinch Stole Christmas by
Dr. Seuss
134. How the Light Gets In by M. J.
Hyland
135. Howl by Allen Ginsberg
136. The Hunchback of Notre Dame by
Victor Hugo
137. The Iliad by Homer
138. Im With the Band by Pamela des
Barres
139. In Cold Blood by Truman Capote
140. Inferno by Dante
141. Inherit the Wind by Jerome
Lawrence and Robert E. Lee
142. Iron Weed by William J. Kennedy
143. It Takes a Village by Hillary Rodham
Clinton
144. Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
145. The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
146. Julius Caesar by William
Shakespeare

147. The Jumping Frog by Mark Twain


148. The Jungle by Upton Sinclair
149. Just a Couple of Days by Tony
Vigorito
150. The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the
Last Tsar by Robert Alexander
151. Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in
the Culinary Underbelly by Anthony
Bourdain
152. The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
153. Lady Chatterleys Lover by D. H.
Lawrence
154. The Last Empire: Essays 19922000 by Gore Vidal
155. Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
156. The Legend of Bagger Vance by
Steven Pressfield
157. Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis
158. Letters to a Young Poet by Rainer
Maria Rilke
59. Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell
Them by Al Franken
160. Life of Pi by Yann Martel
161. Little Dorrit by Charles Dickens
162. The Little Locksmith by Katharine
Butler Hathaway
163. The Little Match Girl by Hans
Christian Andersen
164. Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
165. Living History by Hillary Rodham
Clinton
166. Lord of the Flies by William Golding
167. The Lottery: And Other Stories by
Shirley Jackson
168. The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold
169. The Love Story by Erich Segal
170. Macbeth by William Shakespeare
171. Madame Bovary by Gustave
Flaubert
172. The Manticore by Robertson Davies
173. Marathon Man by William Goldman
174. The Master and Margarita by
Mikhail Bulgakov
175. Memoirs of a Dutiful Daughter by
Simone de Beauvoir
176. Memoirs of General W. T.
Sherman by William Tecumseh Sherman
177. Me Talk Pretty One Day by David
Sedaris
178. The Meaning of Consuelo by Judith
Ortiz Cofer
179. Menckens Chrestomathy by H. R.
Mencken
180. The Merry Wives of Windsor by
William Shakespeare
181. The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
182. Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides

183. The Miracle Worker by William


Gibson
184. Moby Dick by Herman Melville
185. The Mojo Collection: The Ultimate
Music Companion by Jim Irvin
186. Moliere: A Biography by Hobart
Chatfield Taylor
187. A Monetary History of the United
States by Milton Friedman
188. Monsieur Proust by Celeste Albaret
189. A Month Of Sundays: Searching For
The Spirit And My Sister by Julie Mars
190. A Moveable Feast by Ernest
Hemingway
191. Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
192. Mutiny on the Bounty by Charles
Nordhoff and James Norman Hall
193. My Lai 4: A Report on the Massacre
and Its Aftermath by Seymour M. Hersh
194. My Life as Author and Editor by H.
R. Mencken
195. My Life in Orange: Growing Up with
the Guru by Tim Guest
196. Myra Waldos Travel and Motoring
Guide to Europe, 1978 by Myra Waldo
197. My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult
198. The Naked and the Dead by
Norman Mailer
199. The Name of the Rose by Umberto
Eco
200. The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri
201. The Nanny Diaries by Emma
McLaughlin
202. Nervous System: Or, Losing My
Mind in Literature by Jan Lars Jensen
203. New Poems of Emily Dickinson by
Emily Dickinson
204. The New Way Things Work by David
Macaulay
205. Nickel and Dimed by Barbara
Ehrenreich
206. Night by Elie Wiesel
207. Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen
208. The Norton Anthology of Theory
and Criticism by William E. Cain, Laurie
A. Finke, Barbara E. Johnson, John P.
McGowan
209. Novels 1930-1942: Dance
Night/Come Back to Sorrento, Turn,
Magic Wheel/Angels on Toast/A Time to
be Born by Dawn Powell
210. Notes of a Dirty Old Man by Charles
Bukowski
211. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
212. Old School by Tobias Wolff
213. On the Road by Jack Kerouac

214. One Flew Over the Cuckoos


Nest by Ken Kesey
215. One Hundred Years of Solitude by
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
216. The Opposite of Fate: Memories of
a Writing Life by Amy Tan
217. Oracle Night by Paul Auster
218. Oryx and Crake by Margaret Atwood
219. Othello by Shakespeare
220. Our Mutual Friend by Charles
Dickens
221. The Outbreak of the Peloponnesian
War by Donald Kagan
222. Out of Africa by Isac Dineson
223. The Outsiders by S. E. Hinton
224. A Passage to India by E.M. Forster
225. The Peace of Nicias and the Sicilian
Expedition by Donald Kagan
226. The Perks of Being a Wallflower by
Stephen Chbosky
227. Peyton Place by Grace Metalious
228. The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar
Wilde
229. Pigs at the Trough by Arianna
Huffington
230. Pinocchio by Carlo Collodi
231. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral
History of Punk Legs McNeil and Gillian
McCain
232. The Polysyllabic Spree by Nick
Hornby
233. The Portable Dorothy Parker by
Dorothy Parker
234. The Portable Nietzche by Fredrich
Nietzche
235. The Price of Loyalty: George W.
Bush, the White House, and the
Education of Paul ONeill by Ron Suskind
236. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen
237. Property by Valerie Martin
238. Pushkin: A Biography by T. J. Binyon
239. Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw
240. Quattrocento by James Mckean
241. A Quiet Storm by Rachel Howzell
Hall
242. Rapunzel by Grimm Brothers
243. The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe
244. The Razors Edge by W. Somerset
Maugham
245. Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir
in Books by Azar Nafisi
246. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
247. Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm by
Kate Douglas Wiggin
248. The Red Tent by Anita Diamant
249. Rescuing Patty Hearst: Memories
From a Decade Gone Mad by Virginia

Holman
250. The Return of the King by J. R. R.
Tolkien
251. R Is for Ricochet by Sue Grafton
252. Rita Hayworth by Stephen King
253. Roberts Rules of Order by Henry
Robert
254. Roman Holiday by Edith Wharton
255. Romeo and Juliet by William
Shakespeare
256. A Room of Ones Own by Virginia
Woolf
257. A Room with a View by E. M. Forster
258. Rosemarys Baby by Ira Levin
259. The Rough Guide to Europe, 2003
Edition
260. Sacred Time by Ursula Hegi
261. Sanctuary by William Faulkner
262. Savage Beauty: The Life of Edna St.
Vincent Millay by Nancy Milford
263. Say Goodbye to Daisy Miller by
Henry James
264. The Scarecrow of Oz by Frank L.
Baum
265. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel
Hawthorne
266. Seabiscuit: An American Legend by
Laura Hillenbrand
267. The Second Sex by Simone de
Beauvoir
268. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue
Monk Kidd
269. Secrets of the Flesh: A Life of
Colette by Judith Thurman
270. Selected Hotels of Europe
271. Selected Letters of Dawn Powell:
1913-1965 by Dawn Powell
272. Sense and Sensibility by Jane
Austen
273. A Separate Peace by John Knowles
274. Several Biographies of Winston
Churchill
275. Sexus by Henry Miller
276. The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos
Ruiz Zafon
277. Shane by Jack Shaefer
278. The Shining by Stephen King
279. Siddhartha by Hermann Hesse
280. S Is for Silence by Sue Grafton
281. Slaughter-house Five by Kurt
Vonnegut
282. Small Island by Andrea Levy
283. Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest
Hemingway
284. Snow White and Rose Red by
Grimm Brothers
285. Social Origins of Dictatorship and

Democracy: Lord and Peasant in the


Making of the Modern World by
Barrington Moore
286. The Song of Names by Norman
Lebrecht
287. Song of the Simple Truth: The
Complete Poems of Julia de Burgos by
Julia de Burgos
288. The Song Reader by Lisa Tucker
289. Songbook by Nick Hornby
290. The Sonnets by William
Shakespeare
291. Sonnets from the Portuegese by
Elizabeth Barrett Browning
292. Sophies Choice by William Styron
293. The Sound and the Fury by William
Faulkner
294. Speak, Memory by Vladimir
Nabokov
295. Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human
Cadavers by Mary Roach
296. The Story of My Life by Helen Keller
297. A Streetcar Named Desiree by
Tennessee Williams
298. Stuart Little by E. B. White
299. Sun Also Rises by Ernest
Hemingway
300. Swanns Way by Marcel Proust
301. Swimming with Giants: My
Encounters with Whales, Dolphins and
Seals by Anne Collett
302. Sybil by Flora Rheta Schreiber
303. A Tale of Two Cities by Charles
Dickens
304. Tender Is The Night by F. Scott
Fitzgerald
305. Term of Endearment by Larry
McMurtry
306. Time and Again by Jack Finney
307. The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey
Niffenegger
308. To Have and Have Not by Ernest
Hemingway
309. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee
310. The Tragedy of Richard III by
William Shakespeare
311. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty
Smith
312. The Trial by Franz Kafka
313. The True and Outstanding

Adventures of the Hunt Sisters by


Elisabeth Robinson
314. Truth & Beauty: A Friendship by Ann
Patchett
315. Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch
Albom
316. Ulysses by James Joyce
317. The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia
Plath 1950-1962 by Sylvia Plath
318. Uncle Toms Cabin by Harriet
Beecher Stowe
319. Unless by Carol Shields
320. Valley of the Dolls by Jacqueline
Susann
321. The Vanishing Newspaper by Philip
Meyers
322. Vanity Fair by William Makepeace
Thackeray
323. Velvet Undergrounds The Velvet
Underground and Nico (Thirty Three and
a Third series) by Joe Harvard
324. The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey
Eugenides
325. Waiting for Godot by Samuel
Beckett
326. Walden by Henry David Thoreau
327. Walt Disneys Bambi by Felix Salten
328. War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
329. We Owe You Nothing Punk Planet:
The Collected Interviews edited by
Daniel Sinker
330. What Colour is Your Parachute?
2005 by Richard Nelson Bolles
331. What Happened to Baby Jane by
Henry Farrell
332. When the Emperor Was Divine by
Julie Otsuka
333. Who Moved My Cheese? by Spencer
Johnson
334. Whos Afraid of Virginia Woolf by
Edward Albee
335. Wicked: The Life and Times of the
Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory
Maguire
336. The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
337. Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte
338. The Yearling by Marjorie Kinnan
Rawlings
339. The Year of Magical Thinking by
Joan Didion

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